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Common Ground Grows Food Dialogues

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Before Storm Jonas rolled in over the weekend I had the opportunity to attend the national Common Ground conference in Washington D.C. The event, sponsored by the United Soybean Board and the National Corn Growers Association, was created to help farm women learn how to better communicate with urban women about the safety and security of their food.

“The ideas is that women are the primary grocery shoppers in the country. So we wanted to connect women to women because that is the way we build trust, because they are credible sources of information, and to take women who understand farming, and have conversations about farming and ranching with the non-farm audience,” explains Nancy Kavazanjian, a Farmer Volunteer board member for the United Soybean Board.

“The conference here was just about educating [farm women], training them further, about how they can communicate even better. It’s just a great way for us to talk and have a conversation about food,” says the Chairwoman of the Grower Services Action Team at NCGA, Patty Mann.

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This week’s program features interviews that I conducted during the 2019 Water for Food Global Conference.

If you’re not familiar with this conference then this week’s program will get you up to speed. There are interviews of Daugherty Institute staff as well as supporters and international attendees. I hope you enjoy it.

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